The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-08-24
LOCAL AND GENERAL.

MIR. and Mrs. Allan Herbert returned by
the Aus ralia
Chun Hook left for Kauai yesterday on
the Mikahala.
The Royal Mail steamer Alameda left
! Auckland August 18th.
Quartermaster General Samuel Nowlein
returned from abroad by the Australia.
Twelve passengers returned from the
Volcano yesterday by the steamer w. q.
Hall.
Mr.. John Dyer, an agent for the Risdon
! Iron Works, was passenger by the Aus
tralia yesterday.
Purser NJ. H. Bedolfe of the Australia
has the thanks of the ADVERTISER for full
files of San Francisco papers.
The usual prayer meeting will be held at
the yestry of the Fort-street Church this
evening at 100 o'clock
Mrs. II. c. Houdlette, wife of the popu-
lar commander of the Australia, came
down on visit to the Islands a.,
Mr.. \. s. Sachs and Miss Fannie A
Hirshberg were united in marriage at San
Francisco on Tuesday, August 18th.
There will be the usual services at st.
Andrews Cathedral this evening at : 80
o'clock, conducted by the Rev Alex. Mack
intosh
The Union Iron Works of San Francisco
has received a contract to construct an
other cruiser for the L. S. Government for
81 ,428, 900.
Miss s. Beckley, daughter of Mrs. En-
ma NJ. Beckley, returned to her island
home by the steamer Australia, looking
very we'll !
A disastrous fire took place at Pittsburg
August 18th, when whole block of build
ings were nearly consumed. The loss is
estimated al 81 100000
The Honolulu Almanac and Directory |
for 1887 is now on sale at j. H. Soper's |
and a. M. Hewett's news depots, and at
this office. Price. 80 cents.
Mr.. S. B, Wilson left by the steamer
kinau last evening for the Volcano. He !
took Mr.. GOnsalves' camera with him and /
will photograph the crater.
dispatch from Chicago August 18th, |
says: Mrs. II. H. Clark, wife OF the Rev
f. w. Clark, who for fifty years was a
to the Hawaiian Islands, died
to-day"
A new paper made its appearance yes
terday in the Hawaiian language 1t is
the Ike Alakai o Hawaii (the guide of
HawaiD. The first issue is very spicy. s
Major w. H. CornweH arrived from
Maui by the w. G. Hall yesterday. The
Major will not run for Wailuku at the
election, as he intands leaving for San
Francisco on Friday by the Alameda.
Yesterday afternoon Mr.. Dimond, Sr,
was driving along Merchant street, when
he king bolt of the wagon broke and let
he body down. Mr.. DimOnd retained his
,eat, the horse stood still, and no one was
lurt.
The entertainment to be given by the |
Dramatic Corps of H. B. NJ. S. Conquest
will be for the benefit of tina funds of the
British Benevolent Society, and not for
he Queens Hospital. 1t will take place
saturday evening, and the box plan opens |
t the office of ]. Z. Brown & Co., No 40 t
Ierchant street. at nine o'clock this
morning.
The sloOp Volunteer, built to defend the I
america Cup, has in her trials so far {
hown that she has wonderful capacity for
la1ing Roadway, either to windward or
therwise, in exceedingly light airs. AL
eady she has won the Boston Herald" L
up and Brenton's Reef Cup. In the race L
n the latter she beat the Puritan, May Fl
over and several other yachts. b
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